Biography Category
(n th n´ l) (KEY) , in the New Testament, disciple mentioned only in St. John’s Gospel and plausibly identified with St. Bartholomew.
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(gr sh´ m) (KEY) , 1519?–1579, English merchant and financier. As the royal financial agent in Antwerp after 1551 he proved himself very able, thou...
( r´ k br n) (KEY) , 1929–86, Danish ballet dancer, b. Copenhagen. Bruhn joined the Royal Danish Ballet in 1947 and became a soloist there in 1949....
1918–98, British chemist, b. Gravesend, England, grad. Imperial College of Science and Technology (B.S. 1940, Ph.D. 1942, D.Sc. 1949). He was on the...
(märk ´vä) (KEY) , 1910–2004, English ballerina. Her original name was Lilian Alicia Marks. Markova joined Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe in 1924 and...
(r th´ch ld, Ger. r t´sh lt) (KEY) , prominent family of European bankers. The first important member was Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743–1812), so...